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I had high hopes for this book based on the blurb (and the cover, to be honest). At first, I started to think that maybe my hopes were a bit too high, as while I liked the material being covered in the first few chapters, it felt a bit dry and info-dumpy. Plus, I was struggling to connect with Ivy and the other Royals. But that slowly started to change when Zach showed up. Possibly my favourite thing about this book, he was not at all what I expected him to be. I suppose I was expecting a cocky type […]

What a surprisingly fun series starter! With a good mix of sci-fi, intrigue, humour, action, and delicious romance, Joined is a new debut out today from Mara Gan. Meda is a spunky ruler-to-be from a destroyed planet and – though she won’t admit it – somewhat in need of protection from the mercenary Perseus. Fate brings these two crazy kids (ok, not kids) together, and the result was an entertaining story that I read in a day, despite it being over 500 pages long. Also, a note, this is a sci-fi romance, not just a sci-fi with a touch of romance. […]

I’m pretty sure I just read my wish fulfilment Beauty and the Beast fantasy. I am still giddy with all the fuzzies I felt while reading Withering Rose. Ok, let’s take a step back. Withering Rose is the follow-up to Gathering Frost, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. While the blurb suggests that the stories are standalone, which can be interpreted as you not needing to read the first to read the second, I disagree. You need to read the first to appreciate this story. So let’s just get that straight. While Gathering Frost was very loosely based on Sleeping […]

I read Gathering Frost in one sitting, which should already tell you something. It’s a relatively quick and easy read, and I had fun reading it. It’s a loose retelling of Sleeping Beauty, and it even has a cameo of the original story, which was nifty! Ok, truth be told, I don’t have that much to say about the book. I will say that this book is not a dystopian. It says it is in the synopsis, but it’s not. Would you say the TV show Once Upon a Time is dystopian? Nope. This book is like OUaT, where two world merge, one with […]

Adorkable is exactly that: a little dorky and a lot cute! This book was so fun and easy to read, I suffered from a bad case of ‘just one more chapter’ syndrome, finishing at 5am because I couldn’t stop. In Adorkable, Sally is my kind of girl, with her love of Star Wars and Harry Potter. She’s not popular, but she’s not bullied. She’s just one of the many kids that are somewhere in between, relatively invisible in the crowds. Her best friend, known by her last name as Hooker, is beautiful, confident and a wannabe matchmaker (yes, you read that right). […]

Review of The Letting The Letting begins with our protagonist, Veronica Billings, tucking in Cabin O’s girls for bed. It is two days until the Letting, the day when the young girls at the camp will fulfil their designated civic duty of donating blood for the people of the New World. In return, they believe that they will be given a place in the New World, filled with education and luxury, a world far removed from the cities they came from, where young children worked in factories. They believed themselves to be part of a grander scheme, led by the Principal […]

The Cupcake Witch was exactly what I hoped: light and sweet and magic, exactly like a good cupcake! Julie was a boho baker who, through luck, inherited a little shop/cottage from Emma Jane. I actually really liked her, with her mix of sweet and sass, and her affinity for making sugary things. (Come and feed me, now.) Horatio was the son of the town’s biggest businessman, striving to make him proud until his father asks him to force Julie’s hand in giving up the cottage. He was clearly a darling, and such a gentleman! The romance is cute and not graphic at all. There’s […]

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